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...class. The company’s first product is an injection-based pet sterilization system that avoids the need for surgery. The idea for the system came from a concept that Acuta’s organizers studied in Engineering Sciences 143, a class that teaches how to develop a biotech start-up firm...
Administrators have proposed several approaches. With the arrival of University President Lawrence H. Summers, plans for the creation of a biotech mecca have been receiving a great deal of attention. Even in its conceptualization phases, this seems to be the most costly road—it would involve building a completely new interdisciplinary science campus in Allston aimed at working with businesses to create a new Silicon Valley in Boston focused on biotechnology. Such proposals would associate the interests of our science departments with those of for-profit corporations to develop commercial advances. While some facets of this model...
While the decline of the two-parent family in Germany may worry traditionalists, it has proved a boon for a growing number of biotech companies specializing in paternity tests. "Since 1998 the number of orders has increased tenfold," boasts Kirsten Thelen, co-founder of Wiesbaden's ID Lab, which prepared 4,000 DNA fingerprints last year. Says Thelen: "The demand has existed for a long time, but now word has got around that there is an affordable way to obtain proof of parenthood...
...surprisingly, the DNA labs receive the bulk of their work from men trying to prove or disprove paternity. Yet an increasing number of moms, most of them single, also make use of the tests. In about 10% of the cases, the biotech firms are consulted "by grown-up children who want to make sure who their parents really are," says Thelen. "In those instances the client's biography usually shows some unclear points...
...collecting information on them. Today, he estimates, for every company that wants help digging up proprietary information, seven come to him for assistance in protecting their data. And, notes Nolan, there's a new kind of adversary: terrorists who want to use Western technology against the West. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies in particular should raise their level of awareness, says Jan Herring. "There's a very strong business objective [in] staying on top of these terrorism threats, particularly in bioterrorism," he says. "For instance, someone could come into a company and begin buying products or technology that could be applied...